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We have a couple of bags of strong smelling lawn fertiliser to give away at the South Kilburn allotment that was left over from 10 years ago. If interested please email michael dot stuart6 at gmail.com or turn up Wednesday between 2.30 and 4.30

I have just renewed my fence.  The old one is sitting in my front garden and is there for anyone who needs a supply of timber for raised beds etc. Some of it has rotted but much is still useful.  If you'd like it please just come and take it from my garden at 35 Fleetwood Road NW10

Hi my name is Mike.

I am starting a project photographing bee keepers and bees themselves.

The project is about the mutual respect between the keeper and the bee, showing the beauty of the collection of honey and the care you put in collecting it. 

This is partly an issue-based project, due to the worldwide problems Apiarist are facing with the loss of Honey Bee Colonies, mainly associated with environment and climate factors, leading to the colony collapse disorder…

Careen, Chris, Viv and I headed down to City Hall on 1st December for the London Transition Groups Gathering.  Short presentations on London Low Carbon Communities - which I think we should join - RE:NEW (which aims to make homes more energy efficient) and by a couple…

Food group meeting

20^th October 2011

Present: Marjory, Michael (part), Miko, Sanchia

While eating some very nice food….

Queens Park day apple pressing

Agreed we need more ‘talkers’ explaining what it’s about (and this applies to Transition events generally). Other suggestions are to have a map of local fruit trees; have a banner / sign / poster explaining harvesting; having more leaflets out…

Transition Town AGM



On September 22nd we held our AGM as part of the visioning evening at St.

Anne's. The Initiating Committee was disbanded and re-elected to include

John Smith (Chair) George Latham (Secretary) and David Young (Treasurer).

The members of the core group are Elaine Henderson, Careen Hertzog, Nadia

Rojas, and Michael Stuart. Any local Transition members who'd like to join

the Initiating Group were and are invited to speak to existing members…

I am a Kensal Rise beekeeper, looking for somewhere suitable to site some hives - an overgrown garden with direct access would be ideal - in return for delicious local organic honey !

Anyone interested - please would you e mail me ?

Thank you

This is the recipe of an apple cake I baked on Thursday for Kensal to Kilburn TT public meeting. 

Dear All, this is my first blog so I hope it works. A friend of mine supports the campaign to stop Brent from closing local libraries, which is of course dear to the hearts of Transition Folk. We seem to use them a lot, both as borrowers and as venues, so I hope that you will come along to the film if you can. I'll be there and it would be great to meet some of you afterwards for a drink. Let me know if you plan to come and we can wear distinctive clothing, or something.…

Tiverton Rejuvenation: After 26 years of neglect, there is now a plan to renovate the old tennis courts on Tiverton Green. The new facilities will lift the Green and give a real boost to the area. They will give your children somewhere safe to ride their bikes and skate, play football, basketball,…

Initiating Group minutes – Transition Kensal to Kilburn 18/07/11

Present – Elaine Henderson, Careen Hertzog, Michael Stuart, Chris Wells, John Smith, George Latham

• John and Miko have both been talking about setting up a food box delivery scheme.  Miko is taking this forward and has set up a questionnaire on the website.
• Chris was at the Transition Network conference in Liverpool at the beginning of July and fed back on some of his insights/…

FOOD GROUP: MINUTES OF MEETING HELD ON:

TUESDAY 19 July at William Dunbar/Saville Meeting Room

Chair: Michael, Minutes: Jen and Marjory

Present: Michael, Marjory, Jen, Heather, Miko and Molly

Apologies: Ash and sorry there may have been others but I didnt catch who they were

Guest Speaker: Catherine from River of Flowers

River of Flowers

Guiding Ethos:

. Plant to encourage pollinators which are vital in pollinating food

. Grow flowers, both…

Wow! Great to see this in mainstream media! Has anyone got an idea where we could do this locally?

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/audioslideshow/2011/jul/21/primrose-organics-audio-slideshow

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forest_gardening

In jam-making mode?

Lots of lovely clean jam jars, with lids, on offer.

This is the website for Transition Streets - started in Totnes: http://www.transitiontogether.org.uk/

But I liked hearing how one Transition Street group got on... I've copied and pasted from the website below:

Jo explains how her group went from strength to strength

The TTT leaflet fell through my door one morning in mid March 2010.  It was…

Initiating Group Meeting Minutes – 28/6/11

Present – Careen, David, Nadezhda, Michael, Elaine, Viv

Apologies – Chris and John

• We discussed venues for the AGM.  We haven’t been able to arrange a date and film through the Lexi.  Other venues discussed were the Tin Tabernacle, The Constitution Club, St Anne’s Church and the Paradise Pub.  The Tin Tabernacle is a possible future venue, but we haven’t been able to arrange this in time.  Father Fergus…

Thursday 30^th of June

On Sunday when we checked the bees we found a minor engineering problem in our second hive. The first (swarm) hive has settled in well and nearly covered all the frames with a text book combination of food and brood. However, the second hive of reared black bees came on standard sized National foundation frames. This means that when we put them in our deep brood boxes there was some space underneath. Naturally the bees have gone ahead…